Word Meanings - QUITCHGRASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix.

• Quicksilver
  The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.
• Twitching
  of Twitch
• QUICKWITTED
  Having ready wit Shak.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Couchless
  Having no couch or bed.
• Haveless
  Having little or nothing.
• Quickbeam
  See Quicken tree.
• Quicksilvered
  Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil.
• Twitch
  To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes.
• QUICKWITTEDNESS
  Readiness of wit. "Celtic quick-wittedness." M. Arnold.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Havelock
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• quickened
  of Quicken
• Quicksilvering
  The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
• Twitcher
  One who, or that which, twitches.

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